DEATH – The death this Saturday of the 53-year-old political science professor was announced on Facebook by his wife, and confirmed by a relative. He succumbed to a long illness.
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Co-founder of Printemps Républicain, a movement created in 2016 to advocate a strict vision of secularism, Laurent Bouvet died this Saturday, December 18 at the age of 53, following a long illness, his entourage confirmed to AFP. .
His wife, who could not be reached, announced her husband’s death on her Facebook page on Saturday afternoon. A member of Laurent Bouvet’s entourage, wishing to remain anonymous, confirmed this death to AFP.
Supporter of a firm line on secularism
This same relative recalled that the Republican Spring movement had been created “largely at the initiative of Laurent, with the aim of bringing to the public space a republican, secular and universalist left-wing discourse, at a time deemed necessary”.
Professor of political science, Laurent Bouvet, was in favor of a firm line on secularism. Long an activist in the Socialist Party, he moved away to found the Republican Spring movement in 2016, with, in particular, the interministerial delegate for the fight against racism and anti-Semitism, Gilles Clavreul.
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer wrote on Twitter: “Farewell Laurent Bouvet. He embodied courage in his thought as in his life. He defended what we have most precious in common: the Republic and therefore freedom, humanism, universalism”.
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Manuel Valls paid tribute on Twitter to his “friend” saying “tonight, I cry him”. “I will miss Laurent, his personality, his courage, his thought, his writings will miss me and our country, the left, mine, the Republicans”, wrote the former prime minister.
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